Seventh Congress Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine Souvenir The Indian Empire

In the east and south are great forests and strange deltaic regions like the Sundarbans to the west are deserts now for the first time being called to life over thousands of miles by the vastest irrigation schemes in the world to the north are mountain rock snow and glacier to the south the palm beaches of Coromaddel.and the coral reefs of atolls. [...] To the east in Bengal and Bihar are vast stretches of rice cultivation in the central portions are more mixed and varied crops and in the north-west in the Punjab and in Sind wheat is extensively grown with much rice towards the delta of the Indus. [...] Rivers of the trec.can.—The central plateau as a whole slopes to the east and the rivers almosall flow in accordance with this fact from west to e'asts; of these the most important are the Mahanadi draining the north-west tliA Godavery and Kistna draining the central portion of the Deccan and the Penner and Cauvary in the south. [...] The administration besides Burma pi per includes the Shan States and the Chin Hills the former.to the east and the latter to the north-west of Burma proper. [...] The place of origin of the 13rahrnanical religion was the sacred country of the Yajurveda the country of the.Kurus or Kurukshetra called Brahmavarta (ie.